I am using JQuery UI's autocomplete widget on a site of mine as a Country Selector and am pretty happy with the functionality. I have the country selector on pretty much every page of importance on the site as it is used to allow people to search.
The issue that I am having is that the widget is screwing up my Google Keyword density. Because the autocomplete field contains every country, and it appears on all pages, Google believes my site's major keywords include "Island" (1), with "Saint" (3), "Republic" (4) and "South" (5) following closely behind.
I think part of the problem can be fixed by placing the appearance of the country autocomplete lower in my html, but I would prefer that those words not make it into Google's scans at all.
So, my question is this: Is there a way to "hide" part of a pages content from Google? It needs to be kosher with Google as I don't want them to think I am trying to trick them and get sin-binned.
Cheers,
James.